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.. _arrow-avro:

======
Avro 
======

Avro encoded data can be converted into Arrow format.

.. contents::

Avro to Arrow
=============

The example assumes that the Avro schema is stored separately from the Avro data itself.

.. testcode::

   import org.apache.arrow.AvroToArrow;
   import org.apache.arrow.AvroToArrowConfig;
   import org.apache.arrow.AvroToArrowConfigBuilder;
   import org.apache.arrow.AvroToArrowVectorIterator;
   import org.apache.arrow.memory.BufferAllocator;
   import org.apache.arrow.memory.RootAllocator;
   import org.apache.arrow.vector.VectorSchemaRoot;
   import org.apache.avro.Schema;
   import org.apache.avro.io.BinaryDecoder;
   import org.apache.avro.io.DecoderFactory;

   import java.io.File;
   import java.io.FileInputStream;
   import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
   import java.io.IOException;

   try {
       BinaryDecoder decoder = new DecoderFactory().binaryDecoder(new FileInputStream("./thirdpartydeps/avro/users.avro"), null);
       Schema schema = new Schema.Parser().parse(new File("./thirdpartydeps/avro/user.avsc"));
       try (BufferAllocator allocator = new RootAllocator()) {
           AvroToArrowConfig config = new AvroToArrowConfigBuilder(allocator).build();
           try (AvroToArrowVectorIterator avroToArrowVectorIterator = AvroToArrow.avroToArrowIterator(schema, decoder, config)) {
               while(avroToArrowVectorIterator.hasNext()) {
                   try (VectorSchemaRoot root = avroToArrowVectorIterator.next()) {
                       System.out.print(root.contentToTSVString());
                   }
               }
           }
       }
   } catch (Exception e) {
       e.printStackTrace();
   } 

.. testoutput::

   name    favorite_number    favorite_color
   Alyssa    256    null
   Ben    7    red